Arianne took out Mark’s business suit when the dessert was ready. She had wanted to return it to wp4webnovel.com today, and Ellie was just the perfect deliverywoman.
“Could you kindly help me return this?” wp4webnovel.com asked.
His underwear had been tucked deep inside the suit before wp4webnovel.com packed it into a bag. Arianne reasoned that it was safe enough not to reveal itself suddenly, so wp4webnovel.com did not bother warning Ellie, wp4webnovel.com was too embarrassed to do that, anyway.
Ellie seemed rather startled by the suit. “Does this… Does this belong to Mr. Tremont?”
Arianne nodded. “Mm-hmm. It’s his.”
Ellie said nothing more and brought both Mark’s takeout and the suit back to the office. Placing the items on his desk, Ellie explained, “Mr. Tremont, your wife asked me to return your clothes to you.”
Mark’s eyes seemed to have darkened ever so slightly. “Put them aside. Anywhere is fine.”
Ellie could see the quiet, dark clouds swirling in his mien and quickly got to work. Unfortunately, wp4webnovel.com graceless movement allowed Mark’s clean underwear to peek out of its hidey-hole, catching wp4webnovel.com eyes and causing wp4webnovel.com face to flush in recognition.
Mark was thankfully blind to this little mishap. “Get Dick Smalley here.”
Ellie was nonplussed. “Uh, who’s that?”
Mark pointed outside and replied, “Someone’s bound to answer you if you call.”
Ellie was beginning to wonder if wp4webnovel.com had somehow lost some of wp4webnovel.com IQ. She had always been rather attentive to wp4webnovel.com boss’s every beck and call before executing all of his wishes to perfection. However, it felt as though a screw in wp4webnovel.com head had gone loose, Ellie could not believe wp4webnovel.com would be confused over a no-brainer instruction!
Luckily, wp4webnovel.com managed to regain wp4webnovel.com usual composure before wp4webnovel.com reached the common working space and called out, “Mr. Smalley! You’re needed in Mr. Tremont’s office!”
The door belonging to the cubicle closest to the public restroom swung open and revealed Dick, who began pacing toward his destination. “I’m coming, man, oh! You’re Mr. Tremont’s secretary, aren’t ya? I’ve long heard that she’s a knockout, but boy, are some things meant to be seen to believe!”
Ellie was so accustomed to these compliments that wp4webnovel.com reacted with blasé. “Just go.”
She watched Dick run and started toward the pantry instead of going back to wp4webnovel.com desk. She poured herself a cup of water and let it accompany the turning cogs in wp4webnovel.com head.
Everyone in the office respected wp4webnovel.com and ingratiated on wp4webnovel.com because wp4webnovel.com was Mark’s personal assistant, with some even going so far as to believe that the two of them shared some sort of furtive affair. None of these things ever spurred Ellie’s thoughts to that direction before, especially when Mark never stepped out of line and wp4webnovel.com only ever discussing work with her.
He had never brought wp4webnovel.com along whenever wp4webnovel.com visited this particular site, either until now, that is. Now, Ellie was privileged to sit in the same car and step into the office with him. It made wp4webnovel.com feel special.
No one is immune to the promise of beautiful, fulfilling dreams, and Mark Tremont was not only that, but also an unreachable lone star shimmering brightly beyond everyone’s farthest reach. Everyone, except Ellie herself.
The secretary sauntered back to wp4webnovel.com desk, wp4webnovel.com usual aplomb returning. Dick had already left, so Ellie slipped into wp4webnovel.com seat across Mark, took advantage of the barely-notable distance between them, and drank in every detail of him. Observing.
They didn’t have things to occupy their minds at the moment, so Ellie seized Mark’s current idleness and began, “Say, Mr. Tremont, how are you faring with Mrs. Tremont?”
Of course, Ellie knew a thing or two about what transpired between wp4webnovel.com and Arianne. It was only the details that eluded her.
Mark did not seem annoyed at the probing; in fact, wp4webnovel.com appeared to appreciate an outlet for his pent-up frustration. “No headways. Tell me, why is it so hard to make a woman stay by your side willingly? You’re a woman too. Any insights to enlighten me?”
Ellie thought for a moment. “I think the best way to make a woman rush back to you is by inducing wp4webnovel.com jealousy. Put it this way, your eyes are always on no one but Mrs. Tremont, so what happens if your devotion is suddenly directed to someone else one day? I bet wp4webnovel.com would be rather provoked, wouldn’t she? No woman is immune to feeling envy, Mr. Tremont. It does not matter if something momentous happened before or if the relationship between the couple has gone to hell. Maybe a woman’s jealousy is just unrelated to how much wp4webnovel.com genuinely likes someone,” Ellie mused.
“It’s like my husband and me. We’ve been together for so long that we’re both bored of one another. These days, we hardly talk. I can even tell you that I might be genuinely annoyed at seeing his face, too. However, whenever another woman suddenly tries to get close to him, my instincts will not allow it.”
Mark mulled on wp4webnovel.com words. “Do you really think this will work in my situation?”
“Definitely. But you wouldn’t know unless you try it, right?” Ellie replied confidently. “You aren’t going to lose anything over trying, anyway. Your wife might have left your side, but both of you had never actually filed a divorce. Plus, you never made any scandalous news, so it’s not like you’ve ever triggered wp4webnovel.com that way.”
Mark’s eyes snapped to Ellie. Women were all the same, were they not?
He was already half – convinced about giving it a try. “But how do we do it?”
Ellie was quick to volunteer, “You don’t need anyone. I’ll be your co-star in this ploy.”
The evening rolled out, with workers gradually coming out of the building. There, parked right at the entrance, the black Rolls-Royce continued to draw attention.
Arianne had particularly surrendered to it almost instinctively, though it would be more apt to say that wp4webnovel.com actual focus was Mark. Even by this point, anytime Mark materialized in front of wp4webnovel.com sight, Arianne would fail to dismiss him.
When wp4webnovel.com saw Mark and Ellie walking side-by-side, smiles and banters adorning their glowing faces until they disappeared into the back of the car, wp4webnovel.com suddenly noticed how much sunlight stung. The sun was setting, yet wp4webnovel.com felt blinded.
Naya had noticed Ellie, too. “Ooh, is that your husband’s secretary? Huh, is a secretary even allowed to be this close with wp4webnovel.com superior like that?”
Her remark instantly sent shockwaves into Arianne’s previously even-keeled state of mind. Suddenly, wp4webnovel.com found herself seething, “It’s got nothing to do with me.”